Is Your Child’s Webpage Safe?

Three-dimensional image of Internet safety zone. Zip the Internet safety police car zooms into the picture. Car door opens and camera zooms in on laptop screen in car. Camera zooms in to white screen.

Internet 101

Surfing safely

Naviguez en sécurité

Sound of car zooming in with siren.

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Is Your Child’s Webpage Safe?

Presented by Internet 101

Police and partners . . . working together to web-proof our communities.

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3D image of Internet safety “zone”. Zip the Internet safety police car zooms into the picture.

Sound of car zooming in with siren and music begins (plays throughout presentation).

Digital voice (Klik, who speaks throughout presentation): While surfing the Internet, we believe that we are invisible because we are behind a computer.

Car doors swing open and camera zooms in to show empty front seat.

In my case it’s true. I am an Internet officer and I am protected by Zip, my cyber-mobile.

3D image of Klik the Robot appears in front seat of car. Fades in and out. Camera zooms into car, and into computer screen in car.

Look closely. I’m going to point out to you the information that we leave behind without even knowing it.

3D image of a search engine named Poodle fills the screen, with image of robot dog Poodle on it.

Let’s go surf the Web, and check out two personal websites of two teenagers to see if they’re safe.

Close up of Poodle’s face. Fades to image of Poodle search engine.

Thanks to my research dog, Poodle, it’s easy for me to locate what personal sites are at risk. Let’s go do some research.

Words are typed into search box. Close up of Poodle appears overtop. Banner with words runs across screen.

personal site

Jacquo’s website - My personal webpage - Here is Freddy, welcome to… - Hi, my name is Emily… it’s me! :) – as oaos ausa…

Banner disappears and new text appears superimposed over animation of Poodle.

Hi, my name is Emily… it’s me! :)

Ah! Poodle’s sniffed out a problem. Let’s take a look.

Animation of Poodle disappears, replaced by image of webpage belonging to Emily.

Do you see anything here that may give out information on the identity of the owner of this site?

Red circle surrounds photo of teenage girl (Emily) on image of webpage.

I see a few. First of all, obviously, by the picture you can see what the person looks like.

Red circle surrounds line of text and camera zooms in.

Take a look at my neighbor’s site here

There’s also something else that attracts my attention on this picture. Oh, let’s go check the link. Hmm.

Image of another webpage appears. Red circle surrounds portion of text and camera zooms in.

and i went to join my friends after supper at the Lafleur park across the street from my house.

Voice reads: I went to join my friends after supper at the Lafleur park across the street from my house.

Camera zooms back out to full image of neighbour’s webpage.

Here we can see that Emily’s neighbour gives us, without knowing it, a hint to where he lives that could bring us straight to Emily’s house.

Red circle surrounds another piece of text and camera zooms in.

Hey! Look!!! I made my school logo in 3D!!! This is really cool, huh? :)

Let’s keep looking. Hmm.

Voice reads: I made my school logo in 3D.

Image of Emily’s webpage. Red circle surrounds 3D of logo on webpage and words written in red appear above.

LOGO

That rings a bell. Let’s go back to Emily’s site. Hmm.

Close up of circled 3D of logo.

Let’s summarize what we discovered on Emily and her neighbour.

Image of Emily’s webpage. Red circle appear around photo of Emily.

We know what Emily looks like because of her picture.

Camera zooms in on circled text. Fades to another image of circled text.

Take a look at my neighbor’s site here

and i went to join my friends after supper at the Lafleur park across the street from my house.

We have a good idea where Emily and her neighbour live.

Image of more circled text and logo of school with name beside it.

Hey! Look!!! I made my school logo in 3D!!! This is really cool, huh? :)

St. Andrew High School

We also know the name of their school.

Close up of circled school logo. Fades to the Poodle search age, and name is typed into the search box. Fades back to circled logos of school from webpages. Fades to close up of Poodle.

St. Andrew High School

All we need to do is search the name of their school on Poodle, compare the logo, and then we will know in what town they live in.

Image of Poodle search engine. Text is typed in. Close up of Poodle appears overtop of search engine.

Lafleur park

Afterwards, with this information, all we need to do is find out where the Lafleur Park is situated, and, as easily as that, we could have Emily’s address.

Image of Klik in patrol car. Camera closes in on Klik’s face.

Parents, have you ever visited your child’s website? How many of those clues do your kids leave behind in the virtual world? It is extremely important to be careful of the information that your child leaves on a blog, on a webpage, when they chat online or when they are navigating on the Internet.

Images of Emily’s and Alex’s webpages flash by.

Like you may have noticed with Emily and Alex’s sites, your kids can leave clues without even knowing it. A predator will spend hours and hours examining every single clue left behind, and will take the time to make the connections between every bit of information.

Image of Klik in patrol car. Camera zooms into computer screen in car, which turns into Poodle search engine page with text written on it.

A secure web page should not contain the following information:

You can help your kids by teaching them the following.

Text begins to scroll up, superimposed overtop of search engine page.

- The real name – a nickname should be used instead

- The names of friends or family members

- The address

- The home telephone number or cellular telephone number

- Photos

- The school name

- The name of the sports team

- Links to another site

- Any clue that could identify your child

A secure webpage should not contain the following information:

- The real name – a nickname should be used instead

- The names of friends or family members

- The address

- The home telephone number or cellular telephone number

- Photos

- The school name

- The name of their sports team

- Links to another site

- Any clue that could identify your child

If your child has a blog or a website, you should read the section where people can add comments to make sure it respects the safety rules mentioned earlier.

Image of Poodle search engine fades to image of Klik in patrol car. Camera swings around and then zooms into computer screen in car.

Certain websites even contain links to other websites, pictures and even videos that you should examine carefully as well. You should visit your child’s website regularly with them and you should also teach them to respect the safety rules and to be responsible.

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Text and Original Concept

Lafbros

Narration (Klik)

Michael Robineau

With assistance from

Yvon Brault

Robert Bisson

Monique Beauchamp

Dana Townsend

Daniel Mulligan

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CyberWise.ca

MPF - FPM

Canada’s SchoolNet

Logo of Lafbros.

Lafbros Multimedia

Music fades out.